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EP 16 Get out of your own way by having a plan.
How To Be Moderately Successful.
The Importance of Having a Plan and Staying Focused
The speaker discusses the significance of developing a plan and staying focused to avoid impulsive decisions and distractions. They share personal experiences and emphasize the need for discipline in executing the plan.
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All of the things that are on the outside, from skin to hair to the
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words that come out of your mouth to the ideas that you espouse. And a democratic collective person
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is just a giant mask made up of many, many masks. And though it is a lesser error than the error of
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fascism, which Vile understands is completely grotesque,
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it's also weaker.
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As a lesser error, it's also the weaker form of politics. And the evidence for that is that democratic France
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collapsed in the face of fascism. It couldn't withstand it. And it couldn't withstand it because it was just a weaker version of the same error. All attempts to collectivize human personality,
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Vile thinks, will fail.
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And that means workers' collectives too. So not just fascist collectivization, but workers' collectivization.
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So another set of institutions that she rejects, and she does end up rejecting all of them, are trade unions.
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She worked
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in a factory. She worked in a renofactory and she saw the horror of it. The phrase that she uses in human personality to describe her
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first-hand experience of
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the life of a factory worker in 1930s
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France is, I
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quote, icy pandemonium. It's horror. She thinks it's a horror show. The cruelty, the indifference, this vast collectivized person, which is renno. Operations are collective persons too. States are collective
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persons. All of these
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great amalgamations of the amalgamation, which is human personality, which are even more remote and even more removed from true, core human experience. These vast collective machines are completely indifferent to human fate. And so the fate of the workers who live inside
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them is a horror show. It's a horror
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film. What to do?
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The question when you read Vile is always at the back of your mind, okay, but what's anyone meant to do about this horror
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show? And she says, you can't get out
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of it by bargaining for your
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rights. Rights are the horror
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show. Rights are not the way out. Her analogy is that for a worker, under those abject conditions,
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to bargain for his or her rights,
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is like a human
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being demanding a higher price with the devil for selling his or her soul.
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When the devil comes for your soul,
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you don't think, if I only could get a little bit more for my soul,
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it would be all
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right. In the same
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way, under modern labor conditions, to think that there's a bargain to be struck around the framework of rights, which will allow you to escape from
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the horror, is to forget that there is no escape from the horror unless you repudiate
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the entire intellectual structure on which it is built, a structure of ownership, of slavery,
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and of rights.
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